XII ISMAT Psychology Congress

XII ISMAT Psychology Congress: Psychology in Motion: adapting, innovating, and caring in the 21st century.

The ISMAT Psychology Congress is an annual event that brings together national and international professionals, researchers, and students in this field of knowledge to share and reflect on current topics and challenges to psychological practice.

The 12th edition, themed "Psychology in Motion: Adapting, Innovating, and Caring in the 21st Century," focuses on the contemporary challenges of psychological practice in a context marked by rapid social, technological, and cultural transformations.

Within this framework, the aim is to explore innovative and evidence-based responses that contribute to the promotion of mental health and psychological well-being throughout the life cycle.

Program

May 15

• Psychology of human-AI relationships - Prof. Dr. Valerie van Mulukom (Oxford Brookes University)
• Moderation: Prof. Dr. José Brites (ISMAT / O Companheiro, S.A.)

May 16

• Current challenges in community social psychology – Prof. Dr. Joana Alexandre (ISCTE)
• Ecological and collaborative approach: Contributions from Community Psychology – Prof. Dr. Maria João Vargas Moniz (ISPA)
• Moderation: Prof. Dr. Paulo Martins and Ana Martina Taschner (ISMAT)

• Growing up in the digital world: video games, risks of problematic use and addiction – Dr. Cátia Castro (WHOCC for Mental Health / ISAM)
• Intimacy in Transition: How Society and Technology are Redefining Love – Sílvia Coutinho, MSc (Psychotherapist)
• The paradoxes of modern life in child development and parenting – Prof. Dr. Inês Matos (ISPA)
• Moderation: Prof. Dr. Raíssa Santos and Bryan Correia (ISMAT)

• Adapting to care: the role of third-wave therapies in contemporary Clinical Psychology – Carla Andrade, MSc (Psychotherapist)
• Learning to forget slowly: Postvention in suicide – Sónia Ventura Teixeira, MSc (Clinical Psychologist)
• Moderation: Prof. Dr. Ana Oliveira and Duarte Costa (ISMAT)

• New times, new dilemmas: ethics in 21st-century Psychology – Miguel Coutinho, MSc (OPP)
• From couch to screen: contemporary challenges in psychological practice – Dr. Hugo Santos (OPP)
• Moderation: Catarina Alexandre, MSc and Joana Gomes (ISMAT)